moietyn.

Brit.

/ˈmɔɪᵻti/, U.S.

/ˈmɔɪədi/

Forms: late Middle English moite, late Middle English–1500s moyte, late Middle English–1500s moytee, late Middle English–1600s moytie, late Middle English– moiety, 1500s moitye, 1500s moyity, 1500s–1600s moietie, 1500s–1600s moyetie, 1500s–1600s moyitie, 1500s–1600s (1800s– poetic) moitie, 1500s–1700s moity, 1600s mojety, 1600s motye (probably transmission error), 1600s moyetye, 1600s moyty, 1600s–1700s moyety; Scottish pre-1700 moietie, pre-1700 moyete, pre-1700 moyetiie, pre-1700 moyitie, pre-1700 moytie, pre-1700 1700s moyetie, pre-1700 1700s– moiety, pre-1700 1800s moitie.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French moitié, moité.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French moitié (in Anglo-Norman also moité, moitee, moeité, etc.) half, part of something, one of two parts of something (of equal or unequal size) (c1100 in Old French in form meitiet ; 1552 in phrase ma fiere moitié denoting a beloved woman, 1610 in phrase sa plus chère moitié denoting a spouse; French moitié ) < classical Latin medietāt- , medietās mediety n. Compare Old Occitan meitat, mitat (c1150), Catalan meitat (12th cent.), Spanish mitad (1213; 1207 as meatad, 1214 as meetad), Portuguese metade (1152), Italian metà (13th cent.; late 12th cent. in form mitade; a1588 in learned form medietà). Compare also post-classical Latin moeta moiety, half (c1376, 1557 in British sources; < French).Compare (apparently isolated) reborrowing of French moitié in sense 3:1825 H. Wilson Mem. II. 423 The injured husband had confined his frail moitié, in a mad-house ever since.

1. A half, one of two equal parts.

a. In legal or quasi-legal use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [noun] > division into two equal parts > a half

halfc950

halfendealc1000

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mediety?1440

moiety1444

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single1592

second1594

tally1647

'arf1854

half-value1903

1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 104/2 Ye to have the oone moite yerof, and he that espieth..hit forfaitable, to have the oyer moite.

a1450 Chron. Repton in Jrnl. Derbyshire Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. (1902) 24 71 (MED) Ranulphe..gave unto Wyllm ferrers, erle of derbie in Kinge Johns tyme, the moytie, or one half, of the said hundred of Repingdon in marryage wythe Agnes his syster.

1545 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 224 The moitie or half pairte of the mannor.

1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. ii. sig. D She is daughter and halfe heire, Vnto our brother heere Don Ciprian, And shall enioy the moitie of his land.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 497 Mandron..offered him the one moitie of his country and city.

1658 Wemyss of Bogie MSS in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (1973) IV. 339/1 His fyne, both first and second moyeties.

1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xi. 170 To submit others to pay..a full moiety of all they were worth.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 214 All..were required to bring in one moiety of their fines: But the other moiety was forgiven those who took the Declaration.

1753 G. G. Beekman Let. 29 Mar. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 173 Invoice and Bill of Lading for some Bread, Flour, hams, and Butter Shipt..and Consigned you, on account of Mr. Lawrence Kortright and self Each One Moiety.

1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. (at cited word) A sum payable in moieties is payable in two equal shares, though sometimes, erroneously, the term is applied to a sum payable in two or three different parts or instalments.

1874 A. Trollope Lady Anna II. xli. 212 Of that proportion of the estate which fell to Lady Anna, one entire moiety was to be made over to the Earl.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 519/1 In 1444 Sir John Beauchamp purchased the remaining moiety of the manor.

1971 H. Macmillan Riding Storm ii. 45 The opportunity of acquiring half the shares in the Regent Oil Company—the other moiety was held by Caltex.

b. In gen. use. Now rare.

ΚΠ

a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) 5936 (MED) Thys monstre with teeth the swerd ther taking, In moitees to Forthwith it breking.

1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. (1898) II. 259 The one halfe or moytie of their mynde.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Aa3 They..were depriu'd Of their proud beautie, and th'one moyity Transformd to fish, for their bold surquedry.

1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 73 I know they will not turn the beame of equall Judgement the moity of a scruple.

1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 119 Let half of them be School-Divines and the other moity Systematical.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall x. (ad fin.) We might suspect, that war, pestilence, and famine, had consumed, in a few years, the moiety of the human species.

1799 G. Washington Let. 17 Aug. in Papers (1999) Retirement Ser. IV. 256 On this Estate..I have more working Negros by a full moiety, than can be employed to any advantage in the farming System.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 172/2 An earthworm cut in two..will continue to live, and each moiety will become..a perfect animal.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 850 Hereditary taint may be traced in a very large proportion of alcoholic cases—it is said in nearly a moiety.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. iii. [Proteus] 39 Cleanchested. He has washed the upper moiety.

a. †A part of a larger whole; a small or lesser share, portion, or quantity (obsolete); a small amount. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a small part or proportion

particlea1400

pittancec1400

moiety1594

cantling1674

morceau1755

decimal1758

tithe1852

particule1889

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece Ded. sig. A2 The loue I dedicate to your Lordship is without end: wherof this Pamphlet without beginning is but a superfluous Moity .

1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. D4^v Methinks no, moyetie not one little thought, Of them..But should raise spleens big as a cannon bullet, Within your bosomes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. iii. 8 Say that she were gone,..a moity of my rest Might come to me againe.

1650 H. More Observ. in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 144 All that will be left of this learned discourse of yours, will prove such a small moitie of that knowledge your presumptuous mind conceited to be in her self, that [etc.].

1728 A. Ramsay Poems 10 Pigs a la Braise, the Tansy and Brusole; With many a hundred costly mingled Dish, Wherein the Moiety of Flesh or Fish Is wholly lost.

1828 R. Montgomery Age Reviewed (ed. 2) i. 131 Every body pretends to a moiety of lettered wisdom; every fool can write; and every ass is a critic.

1913 A. F. Irvine My Lady of Chimney-corner 64 It's yerself that knows how t'make a moi'ty go th' longest distance over dhry [sic] throats an' empty stomachs!

1913 A. F. Irvine My Lady of Chimney-corner 66 She directed that he be one of the four men to lower the coffin into the grave, as a moiety of consolation.

1994 Callaloo 17 625 To alter McCune Smith a moiety, Frederick Douglass was more than the representative of his time: he was that time's very ticking.

b. Either of two (occasionally more) parts (not necessarily equal) into which something is divided; one's share or portion.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun]

dealc825

lotOE

dolea1225

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portion?1316

sort1382

parcelc1400

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skair1511

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symbol1627

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whack1785

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end1903

bite1925

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > one of the parts into which anything is divided > one of two

halfc950

moiety1597

south half1613

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxvii. 228 Saint Paul him selfe diuiding the body of the Church of Christ into two moieties nameth the one part ἰδιώτας.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 93 Me thinks my moity North from Burton here, In quantity equals not one of yours.

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xlvi. sig. D2^v By their verdict is determined The cleere eyes moyitie, and he [sic] deare hearts part.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 110 Crowned Monarch of the Southern and greater Moiety of this Island.

a1674 Earl of Clarendon Brief View Leviathan (1676) 261 The greater moiety of the world being..mere Heathen men and Pagans.

1704 in H. Paton Rothesay Parish Rec. (1931) 182 [Unable to] pay off the last moyetie of his prentice fee.

1788 T. Jefferson Memorandum Bks. 10 Mar. (1997) I. 697 Moiety horse hire due Mr. Adams 34f [perh. florins].

1854 T. H. Huxley Lay Serm. (1870) v. 98 Physiological Science..Its subject-matter is a large moiety of the universe.

1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xxxi. 242 Tom divided the cake and Becky ate with good appetite, while Tom nibbled at his moiety.

1910 J. Addams Twenty Years at Hull-House xvi. 382 As soon as they reached the legal working age only a scanty moiety..became self-supporting.

1995 Harper's Mag. Apr. 61 The peculiarly human..capacity to pass on thoughts and feelings—even a large moiety of personal identity—from one generation to the next.

c. Chemistry and Biochemistry. A group of atoms forming a distinct part of a large molecule.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > atomic chemistry > [noun] > molecules > group of atoms forming part of a molecule

moiety1935

1935 W. A. N. Dorland & E. C. L. Miller Med. Dict. (ed. 17) 842/1 Carbohydrate moiety, the non-nitrogenous residue of the amino acids resulting from deamination.

1945 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 159 311 The lactone moiety [of pantothenic acid] can replace pantothenic acid for growth of the above organisms.

1954 A. White et al. Princ. Biochem. xii. 265 The other penicillins have the same type of structure but have different side chains replacing the benzyl (C₆H₅CH₂—) moiety.

1974 Nature 13 Dec. 586/2 Its molecular structure (containing both an indole and a phenylethylamine moiety) suggests the possibility of an interaction with brain monoamines.

1993 Dyes & Pigments 21 16 The electron absorption spectra presented are due to the cationic moieties.

†3. humorous. One's wife or husband. Cf. better half n. 2a. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [noun] > spouse, consort, or partner

ferec975

matchOE

makec1175

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lemanc1275

fellowc1350

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partyc1443

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mate1549

marrow1554

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yokemate1567

partner1577

better halfa1586

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moiety1611

copemate1631

consort1634

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helpmeet1661

other half1667

helpmate1715

spousie1735

life companion1763

worse half1783

life partner1809

domestic partner1815

ball and chain1921

lover1969

1611 J. Davies Scourge Folly cxx. 58 Yet sith I am the Moity of my wife And one selfe Purse supporteth eithers life, I must confesse I am the better for you.

1699 J. Locke Let. 23 Jan. in J. Locke & E. Clarke Corr. (1927) 552 This whole family are well, and presents their service to you and the whole College. My service to the other moiety.

1737 S. Berington Mem. G. di Lucca 227 It was to deprive the Husband of the voluntary Love of his moiety.

1770 Lady's Mag. 1 228/2 Among the grievances against which Mr. Bustle exclaims abroad, is the excessive neatness of his notable moiety.

1829 C. Lamb in Gem 25 The Lady with a skeleton moiety in the old print.

1846 J. Hall Wilderness & War Path 164 Mrs. Featherton saw..that something had happened to her helpmate..and..she determined to bring her inferior moiety to auricular confession.

4. Cultural Anthropology. Esp. among Australian Aboriginal people and some North American Indians: either of two primary social or ritual groups, usually exogamous, into which a society is divided.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > tribe > [noun] > small tribe or division of tribe

subtribe1823

tribelet1855

moiety1883

society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > distinction of class > level or grade > divisions of an Australian tribe

moiety1883

1883 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 12 510 If we now..separate the whole into its two constituent moieties, we shall have exactly a representation in each of the assumed forms of the divided commune, in which the two divisions are in fact totems.

1914 W. H. Rivers Kinship & Social Organisation iii. 72 The dual system in which there are only two social groups or moieties.

1936 R. Linton Study of Man xii. 207 Where both moieties and clans occur, the former are ordinarily more limited in their functions and of less social importance.

1952 A. R. Radcliffe-Brown Structure & Function in Primitive Society vi. 118 Such moiety totemism..is found in a number of different varieties in Australia, and still other varieties are found in Melanesia and in North America.

1978 J. A. Maxwell America's Fascinating Indian Heritage iv. 124/1 The longhouse lineage of families was the basic unit of Seneca society. Lineages in turn built up into clans, clans into moieties.

1985 G. T. Nurse et al. Peoples of Southern Afr. viii. 215 Marriages between English-speaking and Afrikaans-speaking South Africans appeared..to occur..at the extremes of the social spectrum,..the offspring usually joining the Afrikaaner moiety at the lower end and the English moiety at the upper.

1994 Canad. Woman Stud. Fall 65/2 When the girl was found, her father or some other close male relative from her father's clan or moiety made a brush house for her.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	moiety
释义	moietyn. Brit. /ˈmɔɪᵻti/, U.S. /ˈmɔɪədi/ Forms: late Middle English moite, late Middle English–1500s moyte, late Middle English–1500s moytee, late Middle English–1600s moytie, late Middle English– moiety, 1500s moitye, 1500s moyity, 1500s–1600s moietie, 1500s–1600s moyetie, 1500s–1600s moyitie, 1500s–1600s (1800s– poetic) moitie, 1500s–1700s moity, 1600s mojety, 1600s motye (probably transmission error), 1600s moyetye, 1600s moyty, 1600s–1700s moyety; Scottish pre-1700 moietie, pre-1700 moyete, pre-1700 moyetiie, pre-1700 moyitie, pre-1700 moytie, pre-1700 1700s moyetie, pre-1700 1700s– moiety, pre-1700 1800s moitie. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French moitié, moité. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French moitié (in Anglo-Norman also moité, moitee, moeité, etc.) half, part of something, one of two parts of something (of equal or unequal size) (c1100 in Old French in form meitiet ; 1552 in phrase ma fiere moitié denoting a beloved woman, 1610 in phrase sa plus chère moitié denoting a spouse; French moitié ) < classical Latin medietāt- , medietās mediety n. Compare Old Occitan meitat, mitat (c1150), Catalan meitat (12th cent.), Spanish mitad (1213; 1207 as meatad, 1214 as meetad), Portuguese metade (1152), Italian metà (13th cent.; late 12th cent. in form mitade; a1588 in learned form medietà). Compare also post-classical Latin moeta moiety, half (c1376, 1557 in British sources; < French).Compare (apparently isolated) reborrowing of French moitié in sense 3:1825 H. Wilson Mem. II. 423 The injured husband had confined his frail moitié, in a mad-house ever since. 1. A half, one of two equal parts. a. In legal or quasi-legal use. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [noun] > division into two equal parts > a half halfc950 halfendealc1000 half-part1398 half-deal1399 mediety?1440 moiety1444 demi1501 demi-parcela1592 single1592 second1594 tally1647 'arf1854 half-value1903 1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 104/2 Ye to have the oone moite yerof, and he that espieth..hit forfaitable, to have the oyer moite. a1450 Chron. Repton in Jrnl. Derbyshire Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. (1902) 24 71 (MED) Ranulphe..gave unto Wyllm ferrers, erle of derbie in Kinge Johns tyme, the moytie, or one half, of the said hundred of Repingdon in marryage wythe Agnes his syster. 1545 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 224 The moitie or half pairte of the mannor. 1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. ii. sig. D She is daughter and halfe heire, Vnto our brother heere Don Ciprian, And shall enioy the moitie of his land. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 497 Mandron..offered him the one moitie of his country and city. 1658 Wemyss of Bogie MSS in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (1973) IV. 339/1 His fyne, both first and second moyeties. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xi. 170 To submit others to pay..a full moiety of all they were worth. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 214 All..were required to bring in one moiety of their fines: But the other moiety was forgiven those who took the Declaration. 1753 G. G. Beekman Let. 29 Mar. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 173 Invoice and Bill of Lading for some Bread, Flour, hams, and Butter Shipt..and Consigned you, on account of Mr. Lawrence Kortright and self Each One Moiety. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. (at cited word) A sum payable in moieties is payable in two equal shares, though sometimes, erroneously, the term is applied to a sum payable in two or three different parts or instalments. 1874 A. Trollope Lady Anna II. xli. 212 Of that proportion of the estate which fell to Lady Anna, one entire moiety was to be made over to the Earl. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 519/1 In 1444 Sir John Beauchamp purchased the remaining moiety of the manor. 1971 H. Macmillan Riding Storm ii. 45 The opportunity of acquiring half the shares in the Regent Oil Company—the other moiety was held by Caltex. b. In gen. use. Now rare. ΚΠ a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) 5936 (MED) Thys monstre with teeth the swerd ther taking, In moitees to Forthwith it breking. 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. (1898) II. 259 The one halfe or moytie of their mynde. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Aa3 They..were depriu'd Of their proud beautie, and th'one moyity Transformd to fish, for their bold surquedry. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 73 I know they will not turn the beame of equall Judgement the moity of a scruple. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 119 Let half of them be School-Divines and the other moity Systematical. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall x. (ad fin.) We might suspect, that war, pestilence, and famine, had consumed, in a few years, the moiety of the human species. 1799 G. Washington Let. 17 Aug. in Papers (1999) Retirement Ser. IV. 256 On this Estate..I have more working Negros by a full moiety, than can be employed to any advantage in the farming System. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 172/2 An earthworm cut in two..will continue to live, and each moiety will become..a perfect animal. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 850 Hereditary taint may be traced in a very large proportion of alcoholic cases—it is said in nearly a moiety. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. iii. [Proteus] 39 Cleanchested. He has washed the upper moiety. 2. a. †A part of a larger whole; a small or lesser share, portion, or quantity (obsolete); a small amount. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a small part or proportion particlea1400 pittancec1400 moiety1594 cantling1674 morceau1755 decimal1758 tithe1852 particule1889 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece Ded. sig. A2 The loue I dedicate to your Lordship is without end: wherof this Pamphlet without beginning is but a superfluous Moity . View more context for this quotation 1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. D4^v Methinks no, moyetie not one little thought, Of them..But should raise spleens big as a cannon bullet, Within your bosomes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. iii. 8 Say that she were gone,..a moity of my rest Might come to me againe. View more context for this quotation 1650 H. More Observ. in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 144 All that will be left of this learned discourse of yours, will prove such a small moitie of that knowledge your presumptuous mind conceited to be in her self, that [etc.]. 1728 A. Ramsay Poems 10 Pigs a la Braise, the Tansy and Brusole; With many a hundred costly mingled Dish, Wherein the Moiety of Flesh or Fish Is wholly lost. 1828 R. Montgomery Age Reviewed (ed. 2) i. 131 Every body pretends to a moiety of lettered wisdom; every fool can write; and every ass is a critic. 1913 A. F. Irvine My Lady of Chimney-corner 64 It's yerself that knows how t'make a moi'ty go th' longest distance over dhry [sic] throats an' empty stomachs! 1913 A. F. Irvine My Lady of Chimney-corner 66 She directed that he be one of the four men to lower the coffin into the grave, as a moiety of consolation. 1994 Callaloo 17 625 To alter McCune Smith a moiety, Frederick Douglass was more than the representative of his time: he was that time's very ticking. b. Either of two (occasionally more) parts (not necessarily equal) into which something is divided; one's share or portion. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun] dealc825 lotOE dolea1225 partc1300 portion?1316 sort1382 parcelc1400 skiftc1400 pane1440 partagec1450 shift1461 skair1511 allotment1528 snapshare1538 share1539 slice1548 fee1573 snap1575 moiety1597 snatch1601 allotterya1616 proportiona1616 symbol1627 dealth1637 quantum1649 cavelc1650 snip1655 sortition1671 snack1683 quota1688 contingency1723 snick1723 contingent1728 whack1785 divvy1872 end1903 bite1925 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > one of the parts into which anything is divided > one of two halfc950 moiety1597 south half1613 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxvii. 228 Saint Paul him selfe diuiding the body of the Church of Christ into two moieties nameth the one part ἰδιώτας. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 93 Me thinks my moity North from Burton here, In quantity equals not one of yours. View more context for this quotation 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xlvi. sig. D2^v By their verdict is determined The cleere eyes moyitie, and he [sic] deare hearts part. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 110 Crowned Monarch of the Southern and greater Moiety of this Island. a1674 Earl of Clarendon Brief View Leviathan (1676) 261 The greater moiety of the world being..mere Heathen men and Pagans. 1704 in H. Paton Rothesay Parish Rec. (1931) 182 [Unable to] pay off the last moyetie of his prentice fee. 1788 T. Jefferson Memorandum Bks. 10 Mar. (1997) I. 697 Moiety horse hire due Mr. Adams 34f [perh. florins]. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. (at cited word) A sum payable in moieties is payable in two equal shares, though sometimes, erroneously, the term is applied to a sum payable in two or three different parts or instalments. 1854 T. H. Huxley Lay Serm. (1870) v. 98 Physiological Science..Its subject-matter is a large moiety of the universe. 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xxxi. 242 Tom divided the cake and Becky ate with good appetite, while Tom nibbled at his moiety. 1910 J. Addams Twenty Years at Hull-House xvi. 382 As soon as they reached the legal working age only a scanty moiety..became self-supporting. 1995 Harper's Mag. Apr. 61 The peculiarly human..capacity to pass on thoughts and feelings—even a large moiety of personal identity—from one generation to the next. c. Chemistry and Biochemistry. A group of atoms forming a distinct part of a large molecule. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > atomic chemistry > [noun] > molecules > group of atoms forming part of a molecule moiety1935 1935 W. A. N. Dorland & E. C. L. Miller Med. Dict. (ed. 17) 842/1 Carbohydrate moiety, the non-nitrogenous residue of the amino acids resulting from deamination. 1945 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 159 311 The lactone moiety [of pantothenic acid] can replace pantothenic acid for growth of the above organisms. 1954 A. White et al. Princ. Biochem. xii. 265 The other penicillins have the same type of structure but have different side chains replacing the benzyl (C₆H₅CH₂—) moiety. 1974 Nature 13 Dec. 586/2 Its molecular structure (containing both an indole and a phenylethylamine moiety) suggests the possibility of an interaction with brain monoamines. 1993 Dyes & Pigments 21 16 The electron absorption spectra presented are due to the cationic moieties. †3. humorous. One's wife or husband. Cf. better half n. 2a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [noun] > spouse, consort, or partner ferec975 matchOE makec1175 spousea1200 lemanc1275 fellowc1350 likea1393 wed-ferea1400 partyc1443 espouse?c1450 bedfellow1490 yokefellow?1542 espousal1543 spouse1548 mate1549 marrow1554 paragon1557 yokemate1567 partner1577 better halfa1586 twin1592 moiety1611 copemate1631 consort1634 half-marrow1637 matrimonya1640 helpmeet1661 other half1667 helpmate1715 spousie1735 life companion1763 worse half1783 life partner1809 domestic partner1815 ball and chain1921 lover1969 1611 J. Davies Scourge Folly cxx. 58 Yet sith I am the Moity of my wife And one selfe Purse supporteth eithers life, I must confesse I am the better for you. 1699 J. Locke Let. 23 Jan. in J. Locke & E. Clarke Corr. (1927) 552 This whole family are well, and presents their service to you and the whole College. My service to the other moiety. 1737 S. Berington Mem. G. di Lucca 227 It was to deprive the Husband of the voluntary Love of his moiety. 1770 Lady's Mag. 1 228/2 Among the grievances against which Mr. Bustle exclaims abroad, is the excessive neatness of his notable moiety. 1829 C. Lamb in Gem 25 The Lady with a skeleton moiety in the old print. 1846 J. Hall Wilderness & War Path 164 Mrs. Featherton saw..that something had happened to her helpmate..and..she determined to bring her inferior moiety to auricular confession. 4. Cultural Anthropology. Esp. among Australian Aboriginal people and some North American Indians: either of two primary social or ritual groups, usually exogamous, into which a society is divided. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > tribe > [noun] > small tribe or division of tribe subtribe1823 tribelet1855 moiety1883 society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > distinction of class > level or grade > divisions of an Australian tribe moiety1883 1883 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 12 510 If we now..separate the whole into its two constituent moieties, we shall have exactly a representation in each of the assumed forms of the divided commune, in which the two divisions are in fact totems. 1914 W. H. Rivers Kinship & Social Organisation iii. 72 The dual system in which there are only two social groups or moieties. 1936 R. Linton Study of Man xii. 207 Where both moieties and clans occur, the former are ordinarily more limited in their functions and of less social importance. 1952 A. R. Radcliffe-Brown Structure & Function in Primitive Society vi. 118 Such moiety totemism..is found in a number of different varieties in Australia, and still other varieties are found in Melanesia and in North America. 1978 J. A. Maxwell America's Fascinating Indian Heritage iv. 124/1 The longhouse lineage of families was the basic unit of Seneca society. Lineages in turn built up into clans, clans into moieties. 1985 G. T. Nurse et al. Peoples of Southern Afr. viii. 215 Marriages between English-speaking and Afrikaans-speaking South Africans appeared..to occur..at the extremes of the social spectrum,..the offspring usually joining the Afrikaaner moiety at the lower end and the English moiety at the upper. 1994 Canad. Woman Stud. Fall 65/2 When the girl was found, her father or some other close male relative from her father's clan or moiety made a brush house for her. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1444
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